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  1. Evaluation & Planning Jonathan Bucki www.dendros.com

  2. What I Do... ● Facilitation ● Participatory Planning ● Knowledge Transfer - Sensemaking ● Network Development/Weaving (for now anyway…)

  3. What I Have Done... ● Information Technology ● Nonprofit Capacity Building ● Program Evaluation ○ Learning Labs on Outcomes ○ Evaluation Matters at Center for 4-H Youth Dev. ○ Sundry Client Projects

  4. Who I Work With... ● Science Museum of Minnesota ● Wilder Foundation ● Macalester College ● Minnesota Valley Land Trust ● Midtown Farmers Market ● Permaculture Research Institute ● Minnesota Renewable Energy Association

  5. Who I Work With... ● Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA ● Delta Research Consortium ● NCSCE - National Center for Science and Civic Education, Washington, DC ● NOAA - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

  6. Tools we use... ● Surveys/Focus Groups/Interviews ● Sensemaking ● Discovery of Raw Input ● Research & Literature Searches ● Data Crunching & Data Visualization ● Environmental Scanning ● Narrative Synthesis ● Visioning/Scenario Development ● Strategy Workshops And much much more...

  7. What I Love to Do... ● Unravel the spiritual roots of our most pressing predicaments. ● Be the needle.

  8. Evaluation & Planning ● Fundamental Human Impulses, Like Learning

  9. Evaluation & Planning ● Entirely Non-Material Phenomenon ● Thinking & Feeling

  10. Word Weapons/Tools Evaluation: Planning: Goal Mission Impact Vision Outcome Strategy Metric Tactic Key Question Goal

  11. Evaluation & Planning: Distinction

  12. Considerations When Working With Strategic Planning Processes - Or Well-Intended Humans In General “We aren’t enough. We don’t have enough.” “We are not good enough.” “We don’t know enough.” “What we do doesn’t matter.”

  13. “We aren’t enough. We don’t have enough.” ● Focus On Strengths and Assets “We are not good enough” ● Highlight Value “We don’t know enough.” ● Highlight Competence “What we do doesn’t matter.” ● Discern Results

  14. Pet Peeves in Evaluators (Or Well-Intentioned Humans in General) ● Fanatical Belief in Data ● Unchecked Scientific Materialism ● Certitude in Epistemology ● Rejection of Alternative Knowledge ● Orthodoxy/Orthopraxy in Methods ● Willful Ignorance of Complexity ● Cleverness ● Tool Fetishes ● Problem Solving Bias ● Judgement Over Love

  15. We Evaluators ● Fanatical Belief in the Potential for Good ● Value of Knowledge ( Sciencia ) ● Confidence in Epistemology ● Potential for Ecumenism ● Revelatory Methods ● Elegance in the Face of Complexity ● Brilliant Adaptability to Context ● Tool Mastery ● Embrace Messy Predicaments ● Love

  16. Evaluation & Planning Eros & Psyche

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